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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Ideell transparens i praktiken : En studie i hur transparens visas i insamlingsorganisationer

Strand, Alexandra, Heiming, Julia January 2014 (has links)
Abstract Title: Nonprofit transparency in practic. A study concerning how transperancy is motivated in fundrasing organisations. Author: Julia Heiming & Alexandra Strand Tutor: Josef Pallas Purpose: The purpose with this thesis was to examine whether transparency exists and how it appears in nonprofit organizations, first and foremost in their fundraising. Moreover, the investigation display a more thoroughly and complex image of transparency compared to the external, which is more requested nowadays. The key questions to be answered are; How does nonprofit organizations consider themselves to be transparent?, What sort of transparency exists within the participating nonprofit organizations?, Does the collaborators have an insight in the operation managers’ decisions?, Do the operation managers have an insight in the work of their employees’, concerning their collection processes?, Does the collection organizations have an oversee concerning their branch and what is said about them?, Does external stakeholders have an opportunity to get insight in the organizations’ collecting processes? Method/Material: The results are based on a qualitative study built on nine different semi structured interviews with three nonprofit organizations. The interviews are based on a model made by Esaiasson, Gilljam, Oscarsson and Wängnerud which later on was analyzed with Heald’s four different types of transparency. Main results: The primary result of the survey proved that all the four different types of transparency more or less exist within the participating organizations. Transparency inwards is the type that the organizations proved to focus on the most. However, the organizations did also focus on the remaining three types. In account of this survey a broader picture of transparency has been disclosed, not only the public view has been displayed. As a nonprofit organization one should be aware of all four different varieties of transparency when openness towards different types engender trust towards the nonprofit organizations, which in return can generate donations. Number of pages: 65 Course: Media and Communication studies C University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala University Period: Fall 2014 Keywords: Transparency, Nonprofit sector, Nonprofit organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations, Collection processes.
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Effects of message polarity, communication orientation and hierarchy on organizational media choice. / Organizational media choice

January 2001 (has links)
Au Kin-Chung. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 49-54). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.2 / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.3 / ABSTRACT --- p.4 / INTRODUCTION --- p.6 / Media Choice Theories --- p.7 / Performance Feedback and Media Choice --- p.11 / Research Approach --- p.18 / METHOD --- p.20 / Participants --- p.20 / Design --- p.21 / Manipulations --- p.22 / Dependent Measures --- p.24 / Survey Measures --- p.25 / Procedure --- p.27 / Data Analysis --- p.27 / RESULTS --- p.29 / HLM Analysis --- p.32 / DISCUSSION --- p.39 / Media Preference And Bias --- p.43 / Using HLM in Survey Yielding Two-Level Data Set --- p.45 / LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS --- p.46 / CONCLUSION --- p.47 / REFERENCES --- p.49 / FOOTNOTES AND APPENDIX --- p.55 / TABLES AND FIGURES --- p.60
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The accountability of nonprofit executive directors the performance appraisal process /

Beyerle, Theresa Susan. January 2006 (has links)
Dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Akron, Dept. of Public Administration and Urban Studies, 2006. / "May, 2006." Title from electronic dissertation title page (viewed 10/11/2006) Advisor, Raymond W. Cox III; Committee members, Julia Beckett, Francois Doamekpor, Jennifer Alexander, Kathryn Feltey; Interim Department Chair, Charles B. Monroe; Dean of the College, Ronald F. Levant; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.
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Nonprofit and Foundation Behavior in Competitive Markets for Grants

Faulk, Lewis H. 11 August 2011 (has links)
This dissertation analyzes competition for foundation grants in the nonprofit sector. First, I examine how inter-organization competition and foundation activity in local grants markets affect organization behavior through institutional pressure on (1) firm fundraising expenses, (2) program expense ratios, and (3) revenue diversification. Second, I explore the impacts of nonprofit program expense ratios and fundraising expenses on foundation grantmaking. This analysis focuses on the relative "prices" of donations to competing nonprofit organizations, represented by these expense ratios, and the impact prices have on foundation grant decisions relative to the impact that nonprofit marketing has. Finally, I examine whether greater competition in grants markets increases the importance of program expense ratios and firm marketing behavior for grant selection. Overall, this dissertation contributes to our understanding of organization behavior and foundation influence in grant-seeking markets and competition's role in the distribution of charitable grants.
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Interactions among College and University Faculty and Students Involved in Academic Student Organizations: An Analysis of Qualitative and Quantitative Engagement

Holzweiss, Peggy Carol 2010 August 1900 (has links)
The purpose of this study was to describe what kind of student-faculty interactions are occurring in the context of academic student organizations as well as identify the quality and quantity of such interactions and what factors are involved with meaningful interactions. The study also determined how these interactions might differ from those occurring in other college activities and how the factors of classification, organizational status, and institutional size relate to quality and quantity of interactions in both contexts. An instrument was developed for the study using all student-faculty interactions identified by previous researchers. A total of 104 undergraduate students from four different institutions responded to the instrument. All were members of an academic student organization. Results indicated that almost all of the students had faculty advisors for their organizations. In addition, 99 percent of participants had at least one interaction with faculty since they started college. Another 81 percent had at least one interaction with faculty within their academic student organization, and 96 percent had at least one interaction with faculty within their other college activities. Over three-quarters (78 percent) said they had interactions with faculty in both their academic student organization and other college activities. Interactions were found to occur but were infrequent overall and did not differ significantly between academic student organizations and other college activities. However, there was a trend for participants to have a higher quantity of interactions within their organizations than through other activities. Most of the interactions reported by participants lasted longer than 10 minutes, which was the standard by which some researchers measured quality. For institutional size, a pattern of responses indicated that participants from small institutions may have a higher quality and quantity of interactions with faculty than their peers from large institutions. Whether or not a student served as a member or a leader in their academic student organization did appear to impact the interactions they had with faculty. Leaders reported more interactions with faculty in their organizational context than did members.
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Nonprofit and foundation behavior in competitive markets for grants

Faulk, Lewis Haughton 07 July 2011 (has links)
This dissertation analyzes competition for foundation grants in the nonprofit sector. First, I examine how inter-organization competition and foundation activity in local grants markets affect organization behavior through institutional pressure on (1) firm fundraising expenses, (2) program expense ratios, and (3) revenue diversification. Second, I explore the impacts of nonprofit program expense ratios and fundraising expenses on foundation grantmaking. This analysis focuses on the relative "prices" of donations to competing nonprofit organizations, represented by these expense ratios, and the impact prices have on foundation grant decisions relative to the impact that nonprofit marketing has. Finally, I examine whether greater competition in grants markets increases the importance of program expense ratios and firm marketing behavior for grant selection. Overall, this dissertation contributes to our understanding of organization behavior and foundation influence in grant-seeking markets and competition's role in the distribution of charitable grants.
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Emergence and multiplication of a new organizational form : a study of the population of PPOs in the U.S., 1954-1998 /

Bueno, Dulce Pugliese de Godoy, January 2000 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 579-596). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.
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Advancing in one's calling : the roles of internal labor markets and social capital in human services career plateauing /

Haley-Lock, Anna. January 2003 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, December 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.
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Communication in collaborative interorganizational relationships: a field study of leadership and stakeholder participation

Koschmann, Matthew Alan, 1977- 29 August 2008 (has links)
The purpose of this study is to further our understanding of organizational communication in collaborative interorganizational relationships (IORs) in the nonprofit sector. The specific communication practices of leadership and stakeholder participation were investigated during a 10-month ethnographic field study, which included meeting observations, in-depth interviews, and document analysis. Results indicate that collaborative IORs demonstrate a form of leadership that is distributed throughout the collaborative partners that mediates between common and competing interests and is sustained through communicative practices of casting vision, translating, asking, & listening. This enables collaborative IORs to foster collective action, despite the absence of formal authority structures. Additionally, this study demonstrates the reciprocal process of stakeholder participation needed to sustain collective action in collaborative IORs. Authentic participation is both provided to collaboration members through voice and opportunity, and provided to collaborative structures by collaboration members through contribution and commitment. Furthermore, the participation of multiple stakeholders in collaborative IORs gives rise to three communicative tensions: focus/inclusion, talk/action, and sector discourse/collaborative discourse. These tensions are balance through interaction between collaboration members as the continually negotiate the social order that constitutes collaborative IORs. Overall, these findings help us better understand the practices of human interaction that foster collaborative relationships among organizations, particularly health and human service organizations. This gives much-needed attention to the process of interorganizational collaboration, which complements the literature's dominant focus on antecedent conditions and outcomes. This research also draws more attention to the important social issues of communication and interaction in interorganizational collaboration, beyond the economic and resource-based theories so prevalent in past research. Theoretical implications and directions for future research are also discussed. / text
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Eco-nuclear publicity : a comparative study in Florida and Scotland

Tilson, Donn James January 1994 (has links)
This comparative study of the corporate public relations strategies of the nuclear industry in the U.S. and Britain, specifically of Florida Power & Light (FP&L) in Florida and Scottish Nuclear Limited (SNL) in Scotland, examines the use of visitor centres and environmental messages as key components of advocational campaigns designed to influence public opinion and shape public policy in favour of a pro-nuclear agenda. The study would seem to confirm other research that draws a direct relationship between the function of public relations in an organisation and the degree of input by public relations into corporate policy-making. Moreover, the data also suggest that, given a prominent role within an organisation, public relations can and does develop strategies and programmes to pro-actively manage emerging strategic public policy issues in direct support of organisational objectives Such programmes, as the study reveals, have been designed specifically around visitor centres as communication vehicles for corporate pronuclear messages, carried directly to key publics without gatekeeping by the mass media. Moreover, it would appear that the nuclear industry has been intentionally 'greening' its corporate messages so as to capitalise upon the public's growing concern about the environment. The study also suggests that the nuclear industry is using such centres, as well as newer, emerging advocational initiatives, in a fully promotional sense to circulate and thereby enhance the reputation of the industry. A comparative analysis of corporate nuclear public relations in the U.S. and Britain suggests a 'cross-national' exchange of intelligence, and in some respects, an outright collusion of efforts. Moreover, it would seem that there exists a further government-industry alliance both within the U.S. and Britain as well as trans-Atlantically. This alliance represents a convergence of government and industry interests in the development of nuclear energy for military and civilian purposes, and further illustrates earlier research of collusion among politicaleconomic elites and the over representation of corporate interests at the expense of unorganised public interests in the government decision-making process. Finally, the study argues that upcoming public policy decisions on the future of nuclear power in each country will be a measure of the effectiveness of pro-nuclear campaigning in achieving its objectives. The public debate on nuclear power will represent a genuine test of the relative health of democracy in both the U.S. and Britain, nation-states in which, military-industry-government interests mostly have had their way as it has concerned nuclear energy.
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